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John 4:1 (show verse)

When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making and immersing more disciples than John

John 4:2 (show verse)

(although Jesus Himself did not immerse, but His disciples),

John 4:3 (show verse)

He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And it was necessary that He should go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

John 4:6 (show verse)

and Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with His journey, was sitting thus at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, "Give Me to drink."

John 4:8 (show verse)

For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy bread.

John 4:9 (show verse)

The Samaritan woman, therefore, says to Him, "How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the Gift of God, and Who it is, That saith to you 'Give Me to drink,' you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water."

John 4:11 (show verse)

She says to Him, "Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence, therefore, hast Thou the living water

John 4:12 (show verse)

Art Thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank of it, and his sons, and his cattle?"

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again;

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whosoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman saith to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come all the way hither to draw."

John 4:16 (show verse)

He saith to her, "Go, call your husband, and come hither."

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus saith to her, "Well did you say, 'I have no husband;'

John 4:18 (show verse)

for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband: this you have said truly."

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman says to Him, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a Prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when ye will, neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship, because salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for, indeed, the Father seeketh such to be His worshipers.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman says to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming, Who is called Christ; when He cometh, He will tell us all things."

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, "I who speak to you am He."

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this came His disciples: and they were wondering that He was talking with a woman; yet no one said, "What seekest Thou?" or, "Why talkest Thou with her?"

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman, therefore, left her waterjar, and went away into the city, and says to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

"Come, see a Man Who told me all things that I ever did: can This be the Christ?"

John 4:30 (show verse)

They went forth out of the city, and were coming to Him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

In the meantime the disciples were entreating Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

John 4:32 (show verse)

But He said to them, "I have food to eat that ye know not of."

John 4:33 (show verse)

The disciples, therefore, said to one another, "Has any one brought Him anything to eat?"

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus saith to them, "My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, and the harvest is coming?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and view the fields, because they are white for harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
Awakenings and religious reforms » -hezekiah 2ch 30 » -Christ at samaria
religious Awakenings » -hezekiah 2ch 30 » -Christ at samaria
Converts » Instances of » The samaritans
Deathless » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Everlasting » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Fruits » Illustrative » Of converts to the church
God's Promises » Of reward for spiritual service » The benevolent
Harvest » Spiritual, general references to
Jesus Christ » History of » Visits sychar and teaches the samaritan woman
Joy » Great joy, occasions of » In service
Joy » Soul-winners' » The sower and the reaper rejoice together
spiritual Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
Life » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal life » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Reaping » Spiritual harvest
Reaping » Persons engaged in » Received wages
Reward » For spiritual service » The benevolent
Samaria » Country of » Jesus travels through
Service » Immediate, examples of prompt response to the call of duty » Joy in, found by the faithful
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim » Jesus visits; disciples made in
Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Harvest, spiritual, general references to
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Harvest
Spiritual » Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
the future » The rewards of the faithful for spiritual service » The benevolent
religious Work » Examples of » Joy in

John 4:37 (show verse)

For in this is the saying true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor; others have labored, and ye entered into their labor."

John 4:39 (show verse)

And many of the Samaritans from that city believed on Him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me all that ever I did."

John 4:40 (show verse)

When, therefore, the Samaritans came to Him, they kept asking Him to abide with them: and He abode there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And many more believed because of His word;

John 4:42 (show verse)

and they said to the woman, "Now we no longer believe because of your saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that This is, in truth, the Savior of the world."

John 4:43 (show verse)

And, after the two days, He went forth thence into Galilee;

John 4:44 (show verse)

for Jesus Himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

When, therefore, He came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received Him, having seen all that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

He came, therefore, again into Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (show verse)

This man, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to Him, and was asking Him, that He would come down, and heal his son, for he was about to die.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Jesus, therefore, said to him, "Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe."

John 4:49 (show verse)

The nobleman says to Him, "Sir, Come down, before my child die!"

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus saith to him, "Go your way; your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spake to him, and went his way.

John 4:51 (show verse)

And, as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son was living.

John 4:52 (show verse)

He inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to mend. They said, therefore, to him, "Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him."

John 4:53 (show verse)

The father, therefore, knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives;" and he himself believed, and his whole house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This again is a second sign that Jesus did, after having come out of Judaea into Galilee.